Chaos magick is one of the newest and currently most popular
inspirations among modern-urban-techno-shamans.
This is the cutting edge of ceremonial magick. It involves more
spontaneity and attempts to integrate shamanism a little more
directly.

It is influenced by cyberpunk, modern physics, Freud and Jung
(synchronicity), Austin Osman Spare, Chaos science, taoism,
tibetan buddhism, many forms of shamanism, Gleick and fractals,
IOT (founded by Peter Carroll), TOPY (temple of psychic youth),
and a host of writers - many of them science fiction writers.

Spare was not the first to practice this sort of magick, but he
was the first to call it Chaos. He was one of the first to bring
it to the ceremonial genre and therefore "legitimize" it.

There is a direct connection between chaos and cyberpunk genres,
and many if not most chaos mages have cyber connections. There was
an article on cyberpunk in a major periodical recently. I think it
was Time. I think it was in February'93 - so its mainstream
enough.

Cosmic
Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson An Introduction to Chaos Magick by
Adrian Savage

*Published on the net....ftp.lysator.liu.se /pub/magick and
ptero.soar.cs.cmu.edu /occult (will change withing 6 months).
Both have kaos/chaos directories. These essays were uploaded with
permission of the authors so copyright is not a problem.

Comments / Other:
o "Defining Chaos" by Mark Chao is an excellent introduction.
o "Kathulu Magik" by Haramullah is an interesting essay on theory
by a practitioner.
o "Liber Nigris" by Frater Nigris also falls within the chaos
genre, though more dark than most.
o Kenneth Grant, whose works are of the most respectable.
o Ray Sherwin, whose great influence goes largely unrecognized.
o Hakim Bey, whose work 'Chaos' is interesting and other writings
nice.
o Adrian Savage, who has many books including An Introduction to
Chaos Magick, which lists other authors (published by Magickal
Child).

- written by Peggy, stealing most of it from Tagi
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